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I'm very hopeful but somewhat skeptical. They also said they'd quit windows several years ago but haven't gotten close. I just quit IBM in January. I brought

I'm very hopeful but somewhat skeptical. They also said they'd quit windows several years ago but haven't gotten close. I just quit IBM in January. I brought my own mac in and used that exclusively. My boss did as well. There was a small but strong community of mac users. It was not common to use a mac, but no one minded. It would be really awesome if you could choose. Using a Mac at IBM, even though it was completely unsupported, was easier than windows. There are a lot of compatibility and VNC tools because everyone I worked with had to do most of their work on Unix. With X11 everything just worked very smoothly on mac.

tx 19y ago
I work at a engineering company even bigger than IBM, and what we have here is crazy: There is a corporate Windows network and all computers come pre-damaged with a special "Corporate Image" that we are all obligated to run: it's Windows XP with tons of stuff specific to the company: it even keeps a special wallpaper along with the screensaver that you cannot change. And, of course, there are plethora of daemons running: spying on what you do, anti-viruses, etc. And this image won't run under VM. Well... these beautiful and powerful workstations that we get from the company aren't really used by engineers: they sit in the dark corners of our offices only to be used to read "corporate email" once a day. Everyone is either on MBP+OSX or ThinkPad+Ubuntu like me, connected to our own "engineering network" we built for ourselves with our own internet gateway, using gmail and IM to communicate. From what I hear, AMD in Austin runs exactly the same way. This is probably why their CPUs suck lately. This truly is pathetic. The price you pay for being acquired.
- maximilian 19y ago
  How do you guys pipe in the internet? (what do you mean with "your own internet gateway". That sucks balls that you guys have to go to so much trouble to get your work with your computers how you like them. At least you engineers are a tight-knit group and can do this. Thinks of all the poor fellows who can't do this! (either for computer proficiency or group-size or whatever)

tx 19y ago

I work at a engineering company even bigger than IBM, and what we have here is crazy: There is a corporate Windows network and all computers come pre-damaged with a special "Corporate Image" that we are all obligated to run: it's Windows XP with tons of stuff specific to the company: it even keeps a special wallpaper along with the screensaver that you cannot change. And, of course, there are plethora of daemons running: spying on what you do, anti-viruses, etc. And this image won't run under VM. Well... these beautiful and powerful workstations that we get from the company aren't really used by engineers: they sit in the dark corners of our offices only to be used to read "corporate email" once a day. Everyone is either on MBP+OSX or ThinkPad+Ubuntu like me, connected to our own "engineering network" we built for ourselves with our own internet gateway, using gmail and IM to communicate. From what I hear, AMD in Austin runs exactly the same way. This is probably why their CPUs suck lately. This truly is pathetic. The price you pay for being acquired.

maximilian 19y ago
How do you guys pipe in the internet? (what do you mean with "your own internet gateway". That sucks balls that you guys have to go to so much trouble to get your work with your computers how you like them. At least you engineers are a tight-knit group and can do this. Thinks of all the poor fellows who can't do this! (either for computer proficiency or group-size or whatever)